Chapter 730
Chapter 730 - 716: Building the Wall
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"Give it a name."
"...Homecoming, Homecoming Fortress."
Lu Ping’an put down the book, looking at the massive complex before him, he surprisingly offered up quite a good name.
The former mining area was now a fortress.
The golden walls followed the contours of the mountains, topped by watchtowers and guards armed with hand-held rotary stone machine guns. The original earth and stone structure of the winding mining area had been transformed into a continuous cluster of metal buildings.
With the public announcements, more and more people from the Eastern Country willingly came here.
Some were seeking refuge; others wished to join the team to avenge their friends and themselves.
The increase in population naturally led to a shortage of housing, leading to expansion.
Considering the time of war, regular houses wouldn’t suffice... They strengthened and expanded them, gradually leading to the current form.
Seen from below, it resembled a steel giant dragon climbing a mountain road; seen from the front, the entire range seemed to be covered in iron plates.
But this complex was not just what it appeared on the surface. Professionals worked overtime, frantically tunneling underground. The real safe area, the shelters, factories, and armories were actually underground, just not fully operative yet.
The high ceiling of the professionals, made everyone prepare for the worst... No one could guarantee if the Aus people had anything more outrageous than the Divine Bones cannon up their sleeves.
Indeed, as far as Lu Ping’an knew, they did...
"...Is the news confirmed? Do they have a powerful rule-level weapon?"
With the integration of intelligence and increasingly more Aus people surrendering or being caught, understanding the local Hod company also naturally increased... At this point, the Eastern Country people were no longer in a position to be passively battered.
The local Hod company had completed the integration of this place nearly eight or nine years ago.
The main branch’s board of directors controlled everything, with CEO Marvin Hodder having under him the production, security, hunter, and R&D departments.
The heart of the production department was the main branch and production factories in various regions. It also managed the camps, miners, and supervisors in the mining area. Furthermore, it was now the primary target of the Eastern Country people’s attacks.
They were scattered throughout the entire region, with relatively weaker individual strengths and were often valuable targets.
The Eastern Country people were looking for them, intending to turn them into new strongholds.
The R&D department wasn’t worth mentioning. Besides the main branch’s research institute, there were some scattered research centers. They are the most valuable targets, but without enough "tongues," it was often hard to locate them.
The Hunter Department, or rather, the mercenary group, was currently the primary opposition to the Eastern Country people. The group of mercenaries who worked for money varied greatly in strength and generally had low loyalty.
Some of them were combatants who had lost to the Hod company, whom the company had recruited as peripheral enforcers. Some, similar to that mine supervisor, had become the ’forgotten’ guards at peripheral bases and checkpoints.
Others were pure war dogs, butchers who worked for money.
They roamed this region in squad format. Once the Hod company headquarters deemed the guest on a particular ship as fair game, they would swarm it, turning it into their prey and bounty.
The most brutal acts were often committed by them. Truth be told, most of them couldn’t even be considered formal employees of the Hod company.
These days, the Eastern Country people, forming anti-hunting squads, were focused on removing them.
And most of the intelligence was obtained through questioning them... They were local snakes, many of whom never planned on leaving.
"Why should we leave? We earn more here, and there’s plenty to ’play’ with...."
"Yeah, you can buy whatever you want from the Hod company. Even though it’s much more expensive... but money is not an issue. Some things you just can’t buy on Earth."
"Heh, like that tender yellow-skinned woman yesterday..."
The further people stray from a orderly society, the fewer restrictions they face.
And the farther they are from Earth, the less they resemble humans.
These wild dogs were troublesome, but relatively easy to handle. The actual difficult part was the last one - the Security Department.
They had no fundamental difference from the bounty hunters in the Hunter Department, except that they were "officially assigned." Most of them were Masters carefully selected by the Hod company, constituting the company’s direct fighting force in this area.
Being the Security Department, some of them provided protection for the important figures, while some served for the company’s interests.
"...the strongest teams are hunting in more distant places?"
This is both good and bad news.
The Aus people have not conceded, they’re just waiting for reinforcements.
The Green Planet is a whole world; its territory is quite vast, and under normal circumstances, everyone would have enough to meet their needs.
But Divine Bones... the distribution of these huge beasts’ bones is limited, and the areas around it have long been regarded as their own territory by the Aus people.
Under normal circumstances, other explorers from Earth could not avoid this area either.
It is as if a foreign area has established a port and built a port area and supply stations around it. Naturally, newcomers would give priority to this area as their foothold without any additional factors.
And this naturally becomes prey for the packs of wild dogs raised by the Hod Company.
However, the Hod company has been operating here for so many years, of course, it is not just these wild dogs, the real powerful ones they cultivated were all in their security department.
They would directly follow the local company’s assignments and complete various difficult tasks.
It was not by chance that they are not in this area. This "residential area" has long been understood more or less by the Hod Company. Giving it to the wild dogs to handle was enough, the true masters were dispatched to perform more difficult tasks and achieve more benefits.
They have the most power and the best equipment and ability configuration. It is said that this time they went out to hunt "Divine Beasts".
In reality, Lu Ping’an and his people had also fought with the members of the security department who stayed behind once.
The huge beast and the combat personnel on it were the strength of the security department. Their failure also led to a temporary vacancy of Aus people’s combat power in this area.
And it was this window period that gave the Eastern Country people a time point for breathing and restructuring.
At this time, the Eastern Country people who received the news quietly celebrated Lu Ping’an’s decision.
It must be clear to everyone, along with the increasing resistance of the people from the Eastern Country, the high-end combat power being recalled, was really just a matter of time... In fact, among the Aus people’s wild dogs, there are already rumors of their return.
When those major troubles return, if the Eastern Country people are still a scattered mass....
"They might be squished one by one."
"Don’t hold on to any fluke mentality. You can’t avoid it. The earliest chance to leave is in twenty days... It’s too unrealistic."
On this point, Ping’an didn’t waver at all. He knew that the Aus people had been working here for over a decade, how could they only have these scattered mercenaries... If they really only had wild dog-like mercenaries, they would have been backstabbed by the mercenaries long ago. These profit-seeking bastards have no loyalty to speak of.
The "contract-abiding loyalty" of mercenaries in movies is mostly assumed. In real life, mercenaries are desperadoes who take money to risk their lives... They don’t even value their own lives, how could they care about so-called agreements and loyalty.
Naturally, whoever gives money is the boss, and if you have money but no guns, then I am also the boss.
Of course, once these guys are caught, they also have no morals to speak of, there is nothing they won’t disclose.
Thanks to these wild dogs, Lu Ping’an and his group were able to easily find the location of the Aus’ main base and launched two attacks.
"Can’t help it, the door is sealed."
Such a nonsensical reason was presented to them so realistically and became the main cause of their two failures.
The same kind of semi-underground shelter built against the mountain, but all entrances were blocked by a white "big door".
Any attack, any collision has been ignored by it....it is a complete "Divine Bone".
Rule-level attacks only leave a crack, ordinary professionals have no way to deal with it. When it blocks all entrances, it seems the only choice left is to detour.
The Aus people have turned this thing into a big door. In a short period of time, the Eastern Country people can’t tear it down under the shelter’s gunfire. It’s simply disgusting.
After failing twice, it seemed that a frontal breakthrough was indeed difficult.
"Slowly, slowly..."
But some things can be learned.
A huge Divine Bone, was being slowly dragged out from a big pit they dug... They would become the city walls of the returning fortress, to cope with the coming war.
— End of Chapter 730 —